Kenneth Branagh’s Oscar-tipped “Belfast”, a love letter to the hometown he fled as a child, comes at a poignant time when peace remains fragile in Northern Ireland, the director said Sunday at the Toronto film festival.The deeply personal, black-and-white dramedy, which hits theaters in November, captures the late-1960s outbreak of the province’s violent “Troubles” from the perspective of Buddy, a nine-year-old boy.
People in Belfast are resilient and “have come through an amazing number of challenges, of which the latest is sort of in the air,” he added. “There’s always going to be unrest in Northern Ireland, that’s the craic sadly. But people, for the most part, have lived harmoniously, for the most part, for 23 years now. He further says Brexit now posed a threat to the fragile peace in place since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.